Is Ennio actually good?

Ennio sits in the 99.4% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 99.4% of them. That figure is a rank, not a star average: each reviewer's score is re-centred on their own rating history before anything is compared, so a generous grader and a harsh one count the same.

How does Ennio compare to similar films?

Within Films · 2020s, Ennio lands in the 99.6% percentile. The cohort comparison exists because a global rank flatters or punishes a film for its category rather than its quality.

How many reviewers is Ennio's score based on?

35 reviewers cleared the calibration test for Ennio — meaning their rating history varies enough to place a personal baseline. Reviewers who rate everything the same carry no information and are excluded rather than averaged in.

How is the Ennio score calculated?

Every review is scored relative to the reviewer's own average rather than taken at face value, then each calibrated reviewer is weighted equally and the result is expressed as a percentile against the full corpus. The output is a rank among peers, which is why it is published as a percentile and never as a star rating.

2021

global pct

99.4

Film · 2021 · Films · 2020s

Ennio

Name: Ennio
Genre: Biography, Documentary, History
Released: 2021
Duration: 2 h 40 min

Scored from 35 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2020s (7,930 peers).

99.4%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

99.6%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 2020s · 7,930 titles

98.2%

AI-adjusted percentile

35 calibrated reviewers, thin samples pulled to the mean

Summary

Giuseppe Tornatore's documentary is built around a long final interview with Ennio Morricone, filmed before the composer's death in 2020, in which he traces his path from a trumpet-playing boyhood in Rome and composition study under Goffredo Petrassi to arranging pop singles at RCA and scoring more than four hundred films. He returns repeatedly to the tension that shadowed the career: the contempt of Italy's avant-garde for a trained composer who wrote for cinema, and his own doubt about whether film music counted as serious work. Tornatore intercuts the interview with clips, isolated score excerpts and testimony from collaborators and admirers including Bernardo Bertolucci, Clint Eastwood, Quentin Tarantino, Hans Zimmer and Bruce Springsteen.

Released in 2021, Ennio is a biography, documentary and history film. It runs 2h 40m. It was made in Italy, in Italian.

Only 35 of its IMDb reviewers rate with enough spread for a personal baseline to be measured, so the calibrated figure rests on a thin sample; a broader pool of 35 reviewers with at least two reviews feeds the raw-average track. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 5 of whom clear the calibration test. The cohort it is ranked inside is 2020s films — 7,930 of them.

How the score was built

We compare the reviewers of this title against every other title those same people reviewed. Each review is scored relative to the reviewer's own baseline — a 7/10 from a hard grader sits well above their average, while a 7/10 from a generous grader sits below theirs. Every reviewer then counts the same, so the result is a calibrated consensus rather than a raw average.

Global percentile: Where Ennio lands against every title we rank.
In-cohort percentile: The same comparison narrowed to its cohort — titles of the same format released in the same decade. A 1970s film is judged against 1970s films, not against last year's streaming series. Ranked against Films · 2020s (7,930 titles).
AI-adjusted percentile: The same reviewer-normalized score, corrected for how much confidence the sample supports: thin samples are pulled toward the corpus average. Each title keeps the share n / (n + 53) of its measured distance from the average, where n is its calibrated-reviewer count, and the result is ranked on the same scale as the global percentile.53 is the median sample size across everything we rank. Here n is 35.